General Knowledge and Current Affairs
What the section tests
This domain mixes static general knowledge - Indian polity, geography, history, science - with current affairs of roughly the preceding 6–12 months. For a Junior Assistant post the paper favours factual recall rather than analysis: names, articles, dates, schemes, and state-specific firsts.
Core areas to consolidate
- Polity: sources of the Constitution, fundamental rights (Articles 12–35), writs, amendment procedure (Article 368), and the working of legislature and judiciary.
- Geography: the Godavari and Krishna systems, Telangana's plateau terrain, soils (red, black, laterite) and principal crops (rice, cotton, maize, turmeric).
- Science: SI units, vitamins and deficiency diseases, common alloys and gases.
- Current affairs: union and state budgets, new schemes and their ministries, sports championships, awards, and appointments to constitutional offices.
Worked example
The Godavari rises in which state? The river begins at Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, flows east through Telangana and drains into the Bay of Bengal. Elimination helps: it is not a Telangana-origin river, and Andhra Pradesh lies downstream, not at the source. Answer: Maharashtra. Where a question asks for a tributary, recall Pranahita, Indravati, Manjra and Sabari.
Traps
- Old facts: institutions and schemes are renamed or merged, so a 2014-era answer may now be wrong.
- Similar names: distinguish central schemes from state schemes with near-identical titles.
- Treating undivided Andhra Pradesh data as Telangana data - bifurcation changed districts, budgets and institutions.
- Ignoring the state angle: a few questions each year are Telangana-specific.